Tax

Mark Kenny and Gareth Hutchens
Thirty multinational companies operating in Australia will face tough new tax liabilities after Treasurer Joe Hockey gave the Tax Commissioner more power to claw back potentially billions of dollars...

Mark Kenny and Gareth Hutchens
The Reserve Bank has put fears of an overheated housing market to one side, slashing the cash rate to 2 per cent just one week before the federal budget and citing low investor confidence and a low...

Gareth Hutchens and Clancy Yeates
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has warned that people on the verge of retiring are in a "much worse position" than those who retired a decade ago, because global retirement income systems are...

Gareth Hutchens
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has warned that global retirement income systems are under a lot of pressure, and people on the verge of retiring are in a "much worse position" than those who...

Gareth Hutchens
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says authorities have found no evidence of suspicious behaviour that could have contributed to sharp movements in Australia's dollar just seconds before the RBA's...

Gareth Hutchens
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says it is hard to escape the conclusion that Sydney house prices "look rather exuberant" at the moment with "very easy" credit conditions, after prices have...

Gareth Hutchens
BHP Billiton has been reprimanded by a senate committee on corporate tax avoidance and given two weeks to report back after it refused to disclose basic financial information about its own operations...

Gareth Hutchens
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF argues there is a "strong case" for increased public infrastructure investment in advanced economies with "clearly identified infrastructure needs",...